Aesthetic Realism Online Library site map

The Aesthetic Realism Online Library is the definitive online source for publications about the philosophy founded by poet, critic, and educator Eli Siegel.

On this map (below) you will find a link to every page in the Online Library. As you scroll down, you will see links to the subject of Poetry (including poetry by Eli Siegel and criticism of poetry); Reviews; Books; Articles in the Press & Media (including on the subjects of education, racism, the economy; war and peace; art and life, and more); Lectures by Eli Siegel; Definitions by Eli Siegel ; issues of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, the international periodical.

Poetry

The following poems are from Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana; Hail, American Development; The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known; and other journals.

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
Ralph Isham, 1753 and Later
Somewhere This
Dear Birds, Tell This to Mothers
Local Stop, Sheridan Square
Must I Wait All My Life; or, The Misery Song
Something Else Should Die
They Look at Us
Kaddish (Words Having Holiness)
This Summer Morning Mariana Has
Quiet, Tears, Babies
To Dylan Thomas
Hymn to Jazz and the Like
Observations in the Metre of Tamburlaine on the Norman Mailer Turbulence….
Poems, Chiefly Scientific
Have the Lily
Afternoon
An Instance of Dyspepsia
A Marriage
The Dark That Was Is Here
Amiable Thoughts for Someone in a Hospital
Neighboring You
The Unknown Should Be Good
Alice Has Never Been in China
All For Herself; Shakey
What Food Deserves: A Canticle
Night in 1242
How Fine This All
And There Prevail
Their Birds’ World Was Shaken
The Lord Has Stolen Her Whims
Necessity and Choice Always Prevail
What Is Newer Than an Ancient Daisy?
Meadow and a Stem
Summer
Apathetic Landlord
Eagles Go with the Fine News to Many Places
Character Sketch
Amiable Thoughts for Someone in a Hospital
Girl and Moon
Ladies Ever, Ever, Ever Lightly Go Across Sweet, Green Swards

Short Poems

One Question
21 Distichs about Children
Love and Jobs
Discouraged People
Still the Dawn
Spark
Come, Spring Flowers
Contemporary History
List
Naera Says “Coming” No Longer

Translations

I Should Love to Be Loved, by Endre Ady
Anonymous:
Roland and the Archbishop: From Chanson de Roland
The Song of the Potter: Ceylon Folk Poem
The Laurels Are Cut Down, by Théodore de Banville
Her Lunch-Tray, by Basho
The Splash, by Basho
To the Reader, by Charles Baudelaire
The Voyage, VIII; by Charles Baudelaire
Hymn, by Charles Baudelaire
The Albatross, by Charles Baudelaire
Mourn This Sparrow, by Gaius Valerius Catullus
The Poem of Catullus about Attis, by Gaius Valerius Catullus
The Idea of Beauty Is Adored in This World, by Joachim Du Bellay
The Cydnus, by José Maria de Heredia
Towards Homer: Free Verse, Beginning with the First Lines of Pope’s Translation of the Odyssey, by Homer
The Expiation, by Victor Hugo
The Milkmaid and the Pot of Milk, by Jean de La Fontaine
The Oak and the Reed, by Jean de La Fontaine
The Wolf and the Lamb, by Jean de La Fontaine
A Strong City Is Our God, by Martin Luther
Two Stanzas from French Literature about Death: In Stances à Du Perrier, by François de Malherbe
Carry Me Away, by Henri Michaux
The Fall of the Leaves, by Charles Hubert Millevoye
Duval Is on the Run: The People Are on the March, by José María Quiroga Pla
The Voice, by Henri de Régnier
Happiness, by Arthur Rimbaud
At Thermopylae, by Simonides of Ceos
Art Poétique, by Paul Verlaine
Autumn Song, by Paul Verlaine
Some Lines from Voltaire’s Poem on the Disaster at Lisbon, by François Marie Arouet de Voltaire

Critics Speak about Eli Siegel’s Poetry

What Is Poetry?

The Aesthetic Realism Explanation of Poetry. Taught by Ellen Reiss
The Immediate Need for Poetry by Eli Siegel
Lectures by Eli Siegel on Poetry.
See Poetry and Women
Poetry and Keenness
Poetry and History, and more
‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ As a Poem by Eli Siegel
Woman’s Dissatisfaction: When Is It Right and Wrong? With a Study of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Margot Carpenter

The following discussions by Eli Siegel and Ellen Reiss in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known describe poetry technically; what makes for its music; and how the lives of poets comment on matters that concern people most:

Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
Thomas Gray
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Keats

Reviews

Scribner’s Magazine Book Reviews by Eli Siegel

A Calendar of Sin by Evelyn Scott
Mark Twain’s America by Bernard DeVoto
Tragic America by Theodore Dreiser
A Cultural History of the Modern Age by Egon Friedell, Vol. II
The Sibyl of the North: The Tale of Christina, Queen of Sweden by Faith Compton Mackenzie
The Life of Emerson by Van Wyck Brooks
Adventures in Genius by Will Durant
The Soul of America by Arthur Hobson Quinn
Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
Breathe Upon These Slain by Evelyn Scott
The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow
The First Wife and Other Stories by Pearl S. Buck
Eimi by E.E. Cummings
Eva Gay by Evelyn Scott
Three Cities: A Trilogy by Sholom Asch
Edmund Kean by Harold Newcomb Hillebrand
William Carlos Williams: Collected Poems, 1921-1931
John Dryden by T.S. Eliot
Selected Essays: 1917-1932 by T.S. Eliot
The Road Leads On by Knut Hamsun
The Proud and the Meek (Men of Good Will, Part II) by Jules Romains
The Proud and the Meek (Men of Good Will, vol. III) by Jules Romains

New York Evening Post Literary Review by Eli Siegel

“Hardy’s Four Lines Called Best in Poetry Anthology” by Eli Siegel, November 28, 1925

Reviews of Eli Siegel’s Works & Works about Aesthetic Realism

William Carlos Williams. Letter, 1951
Kenneth Rexroth. Review, New York Times, 1969
Ellen Reiss. On a Series of Eli Siegel’s Poems titled “The Persistence of Fabric”
Walter Leuba. Whole in Brightness, New Mexico Quarterly, August 17, 1957
Selden Rodman. Saturday Review, August 17, 1957
William Packard. newsART—The Smith
Smithsonian Book Reviews, Washington, DC, February, 1982. Review of Self and World
REVIEW of Self and World by anthropologist Arnold Perey, 2005
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE NEWS review by Lawrence Campbell
Ralph Hattersley in Popular Photography. Review of Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There—Six Artists on the Siegel Theory of Opposites
Library Journal review of Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There

Books by Eli Siegel and about Aesthetic Realism

Articles in the news

WKCR interview of Eli Siegel on “The World of Art” conducted by Peter Gorlin (Columbia University) in three parts:

Articles written about Eli Siegel have appeared in:

Articles on Education

The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method described by teachers in professional journals and in newspapers across the continent.

South Carolina Black News / 2006 “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Shows Education is Ethics!”
- Part 1: “Biodiversity and the Emperor Penguin”
- Part Two:” Organic Kindness on the Ice of Antarctica“
Missouri State Post (Kansas City, MO) May 19-25, 2005 “Students Learn, Prejudice Is Defeated—The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method! ” by Sally Ross
PSTA Exchange (Pennsylvania State Teachers Association) Spring, 2002 Vol. 25 No. 1 “The Success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method” by Rosemary Plumstead
Greenwich Village Gazette (Internet, New York, NY) 1/31/01 “What Kind of Education Do Our Children Deserve?” by Anthony Romeo and Karen Van Outryve
The Teacher / Great Britain teachers’ union national journal (National Union of Teachers, United Kingdom) 11/00 “Teaching through Aesthetic Realism” by Christopher Balchin
The English Record: Journal of the New York State English Council, Vol. 53, no. 2: Winter, 2003 “Teaching Language Arts through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method” by Avi Gvili. On pronouns
LaVida News-The Black Voice (Fort Worth, TX) 10/10/01 “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method is the Solution to the Crisis in Education!” by Jeffrey Williams
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY) 12/5/2001 “Young and Old Learn Answer to Racism at Brooklyn Children’s Museum” by Alice Bernstein
Allegro, Local 802 News (American Federation of Musicians, New York, NY) 10/00 “Proud To Be An 802 Member” by Alan Shapiro, music teacher
San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Texas) 9/21/00 – 9/28/00 “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Is the Solution to the Crisis in Education–Teachers Tell Why” by Helena Simon
- Part 1, and Part 2: “Density; or, the Opposites of Full and Empty, Heavy and Light”
Tennessee Tribune (Nashville, Tennessee) 2/16/00 “Prejudice Changes to Respect: The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method” by Barbara McClung
Tennessee Tribune, 8/26/99 and 9/9/99 “The Success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Students Learn, Prejudice Is Defeated” by Patricia Martone
The English Record, Journal of the New York State English Council (Albany, NY) vol. 49, no. 1, Fall 1998 “Through Aesthetic Realism Interest Wins, Cynicism Loses” by Leila Rosen
San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Texas) 11/8/98 – 1/28/99 “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds,” a four part series.
- Part 1 & Part 2: Reading lessons : elementary school. Contains: “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Brings Out Every Child’s True Intelligence — and Education Succeeds!” by Monique Michael
- Part 3 & Part 4: Lessons in high school biology: environmental science . Contains: “Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Knowledge Opposes Anger — & Students Learn!” by Rosemary Plumstead
San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Texas) Part 1, 6/20/99; Part 2, 6/20/99 Article by Lori Colavito about Kindergarten mathematics
- Part 1: “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Students Learn, Prejudice Is Defeated!”
- Part 2: “Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Addition and Subtraction Oppose Prejudice.”
Courier Publications (Queens, New YorkJanuary 22-28, 1998 by Helena Simon: A personal account of children’s objection to learning reading and the success of the Aesthetic Realism teaching method in a very young person’s life.
Southwest Digest (Lubbock, Texas) 11/27/97-12/3/97 “Children Learn to Read through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method!” by Monique Michael
Louisiana Weekly, New Orleans “The Aesthetic Realism Method” by Patricia Martone

ARTICLES ON RACISM.

Teachers and writers, Black, White, and Latino, explore in diverse news sources the hitherto unseen role of contempt as the fundamental cause of racism.

ON THE ECONOMY.

Experts in the fields of labor, education, and business write on the cause of the well-known injustice to working people in our economy today

American Medical News, American Medical Association, 2/17/97 “Profit Motive a Major Problem in Health Care” by Jeffrey Sosinsky, M.D.
Northport Journal (Huntington, NY) 12/19/99 “Filmmaker Tackles Homelessness Issues” by Carol Parker
Newsday, 9/26/2005 “The Bane of True Democracy” by Timothy Lynch, President of Teamsters Local 1205
The Wall Street Journal, 10/15/96 “Layoffs and Sweatshops Threaten Our Economy” by Timothy Lynch, Teamsters local 1205
American Planning Association (http://www.planning.org) Fall, 1999 “Housing in America: a Basic Human Right” by Barbara Buehler
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) 9/4/00 “When High Profits Drive Trucking, Accidents Happen” by Timothy Lynch, Teamsters local 1205
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 1/22/00 “Helping Firefighters Battle Hepatitis C Is Civic Duty” by Richel Clerkin, R.N.
The Philippine Post Magazine, 2/02 “Purposes in America…Once and Now” by Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism
Herald News (Northern New Jersey) 5/8/04 “Unions Remain Strong, Vital” by Timothy Lynch, President, Teamsters Local 1205
Back Stage: The Performing Arts Weekly (New York, New York) 6/23-29/00 “Cheers for SAG-AFTRA” by Anne Fielding, Aesthetic Realism consultant / Director, Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co.
Financial Times (London, UK) 10/4/00 “We Actors Deserve Our Share of the Wealth We Help Produce” by Carol McCluer of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company
Long Beach Times (Long Beach, California) 8/23/01 “Union Leader Outlines Most Important Study for America” by Alice Bernstein

On WAR and PEACE

The authors (whose backgrounds are international) ask: How does Aesthetic Realism understand the cause of war?

On LOVE and the FAMILY.

Women and men of diverse ages show what happens when families—and individuals in their search for love—understand a crucial Aesthetic Realism concept: The purpose of love is to like the whole world through a person.

Queens Ledger (Queens, NY) (7/24/02) “How Should We See the Loss of a Loved One?” by Marion Fennell
The Miami Herald (2/10/01) “Love World, Yourself” by Margot Carpenter
Philippine Post (November 2000) “The Essence of Kindness” by Ernest DeFilippis
Kent Good Times Dispatch (Kent, Connecticut) 9/8/00 “A Mother Reconsidered” by Dorli DiGregorio
Tennessee Tribune, 6/15-21/00 “A Father Asks: What Do Children Really Want from Their Parents?” by Joseph Meglino
Caribbean Life (New York City) 2/8/00 “Love and Self-Respect – A Lasting Valentine” by Margot Carpenter
San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Texas) 7/15/99 & 7/29/99 Part 1 & Part 2: “Power, Love, Sex—and Mistakes People Make about Them!” by Aesthetic Realism consultant Ernest De Filippis. Includes excerpt of Eli Siegel speaking to the author in an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
EXODUS Newsmagazine (San Jose, California) 4/27/99 “The Debate in Women Between Boredom and Interest” by Marion Fennell
U.S. African Eye (Brooklyn, New York / International) 1/99 – 2/99 “Love, Power, Goodwill” by Edward Green, professor at Manhattan School of Music
Caribbean Life (New York City) 11/10/98 “Learn How Marriage Can Succeed in a Failed Economy” by Barbara Allen
Mississippi Link (Jackson, MS) 12/17/98 “What Is True Power in a Man?” by David M. Bernstein
The Mobile Beacon & Atlanta Citizen (Mobile, AL) 7/25/98 “A Father, Seen Newly” by Ruth Oron.
Caribbean Life (New York City) 9/1/98 “How Should a Widow Cope with the Loss of Her Spouse?” by Anne Fielding
Bloomfield Life (Bloomfield, NJ) 3/12/98 “Parenting Workshop to Continue”

On YOUTH & AGE

The authors of these articles write on the hopes of young people to like the world they were born into and what can young men and women learn to meet that great hope.

On MEN’S ISSUES & MORE

(1) Aesthetic Realism understands how a man wants to be both tough and kind, and looks for an authentic solution. (2) Aesthetic Realism is also interested in whether a person may interfere with his or her own self-expression.

Mississippi Link (Jackson, Mississippi) 12/17/98 “What Is True Power in a Man?” by David M. Bernstein
Originally Published in the San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Texas) 3/11, 3/18, 3/25/99 “True Strength in a Man — With a Discussion about Muhammad Ali” — Aesthetic Realism Seminar by Michael Palmer:
- Part 1 – True Strength, Part 2 – True Strength, Part 3
“Canadian Association for People Who Stutter” Website & “The Stuttering Home Page,” 6/6/99 On her Aesthetic Realism and Self-Expression website, Miriam Mondlin has posted her noted article “How My Stuttering Ended”
Westport Minuteman (Westport, CT) 5/4/00 “Aesthetic Realism vs. Eating Disorders” by Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
The Sun Herald, (Biloxi, Mississippi) 4/22/98 “Attitude Toward World Is Driving Each Driver” by Lynette Abel

On ART and LIFE

Articles in professional journals and newspapers by professionals and scholars in the following fields: the visual arts, architecture, film, drama, photography, poetry and literature.

THE VISUAL ARTS

“Art Answers the Questions of Your Life” by Dorothy Koppelman and Carrie Wilson, Terrain Gallery Directors, at “International Conversations Through Art” (31st InSEA World Congress — International Society for Education through the Arts –August, 2002, New York City.)
“Freedom and Order: The Quilt Masterpieces of Gee’s Bend” by Alice Bernstein — The Harlem Times (New York, New York) 2/22/03
“Wonder and ‘Matter-of-Fact’ Meet or the Imagination of Beatrix Potter” by Marcia Rackow
“Aesthetic Realism and Picasso’s Guernica : for Life” by Dorothy Koppelman
“Bruegel’s Peasant Wedding Celebrates the True Purpose of Marriage” by Ruth Oron
“Scene of Her Mind Change” by Faith Stern. About the place of the Terrain Gallery in the history of 39 Grove Street and the effect of this cultural institution on one’s life. The Villager (New York, NY)
“The Surprising & Abiding Opposites” at the Terrain Gallery by Carrie Wilson
“Chaim Koppelman: A Selection of Works on Paper” — Review of show at the Beatrice Conde Gallery, New York, NY, by Marcia Rackow, Journal of the Print World
“Kindness and a Father” by artist and Aesthetic Realism Consultant Chaim Koppelman. The Dayton Weekly News
“We Can Learn about Ourselves from Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream” by Daniel Reiss. Tennessee Tribune
“The Dark Angels” a charcoal drawing by Chaim Koppelman, at the National Academy Museum. New York Times
“Our Selves Are Aesthetic!” — About Monet’s Autumn Effect at Argenteuil and Aesthetic Realism Consultations by Ruth Oron

THE PRINT

“The Opposites — 2001: The Print. A Review and Some History” by Alma Vincent. Journal of the Print World (Meredith, NH)
“Power and Tenderness in Men and Picasso’s Minotauromachy” by Chaim Koppelman. Journal of the Print World
“Confrontation 2” by Chaim Koppelman. National Academy exhibition”Treasures Revealed: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works on Paper,” Museum and School of Fine Arts

PHOTOGRAPHY

“Open Mike at Peez Leweez: an Enticing Evening of Music and Poetry” by Richard A. Ross. The River Reporter (Narrowsburg, New York)— “Len Bernstein’s photographs are on exhibit at Peez Leweez….[His] work speaks to the observer about the connectedness of the human experience….Bernstein explains his photograph ‘The Young Critic,’ above, as follows: ‘Children are not usually seen as having keen, critical perception that can be of deep use to us…. I tried to show his dignity through composition…” > more
“Three Photographers at the Terrain Gallery” by Alma Vincent. The Journal of the Print World
“What Does a Person Deserve? The Answer Found in a Great Photograph of Dorothea Lange” by David M. Bernstein

DRAMA

“An Oscar for Elia Kazan? He cannot be forgiven for betraying his friends” by Anne Fielding. Philadelphia Inquirer

POETRY AND LITERATURE

“Two Poems by Eli Siegel about Martin Luther King and America” by Alice Bernstein. Annapolis Times (Annapolis, MD)
“Eli Siegel’s Hymn to Jazz and the Like — and Why I Love It” by Shirley Jones. Tennessee Tribune (Nashville, TN)
“Presentation of ‘Hard Times’ by Dickens: A Dramatic Presentation of Eli Siegel’s Great Lecture.” The Journal (L.I.C., Astoria, Jackson Heights, NY)
“The Essence of Kindness” by Ernest DeFilippis — On literature in relation to life: love, marriage, and economic injustice. Philippine Post
“Eli Siegel: A Centennial Celebration” by Alice Bernstein. ‘This year is the centenary of Eli Siegel (1902-78)….He grew up in Baltimore….It is here that his thought and writing began….Mayor Martin O’Malley writes: “I…hereby proclaim August 16th 2002 as ‘Eli Siegel Day’ in Baltimore, and do urge all citizens to join in this celebration.”‘ The Baltimore Times (Baltimore, Maryland)

FILM

“Young and Old Learn Answer to Racism at Brooklyn Children’s Museum” by Alice Bernstein. Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY)

MUSIC

“‘Shakespeare, Music, Love — & How You Can Like Yourself’: Special Matinee Performance.” The Rye Chronicle (Rye, NY)
Tennessee Tribune, 1/6/2000 / “Simplicity and Complexity in the Temptations’ My Girl, in Love, and in Me” by Kevin Fennell
“Music From China and the Universal Criterion for Beauty” by Professor Edward Green. Music From China Website
The Urgent Question for Men and Woman: How Do We Want to Affect People? Part 1. Part 2 includes a discussion of Elvis Presley: music, lyrics, life

ARCHITECTURE

Letters

The following letters about Eli Siegel and his thought were written by authorities in their fields who show something of the history and motivation of persons who have lied about Aesthetic Realism:

Essays by the founder of Aesthetic Realism

The Ordinary Doom. “If we judge from history, we are doomed not to show our feelings; not to have them known….” more
On Aesthetic Realism As New. “Here are some of the differences between Aesthetic Realism and some of the important presentations of opposites we have had in the past…”
36 Things about America. “An Arithmetical Assemblage of Notations on the Persisting…”
Are Feelings Objects? or, The Alienation of Any Time. “It would seem that feelings are objects, for they can be thought about; and, insofar as they can change, they can have something done to them….If we don’t want to see our feelings as objects, or can’t see them as objects, we are that much alienated…”
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Revisited. From The Prologue: “It is a new Hamlet because it is a Hamlet who does not care for his father entirely. Insufficient care for a father has much to do with what happens in the play, and what doesn’t; also with how the play goes on…”
Aesthetic Realism Asks Thirty-Five Questions about Mathematics (Reprinted from The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 605 (7 November 1984)
What Is the Best Punctuation for the Self? (Reprinted from The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1616 (16 June 2004)
Is a Person an Aesthetic Situation? A Short Explanation Given by Eli Siegel in an Interview with Lewis Nichols of the New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1969… more

Lectures by Eli Siegel published serially in The Right Of

“There Are Two Freedoms”, in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1674-1680

“Poetry and Women”, in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1525-1529

“Selves Are in Economics”, in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1511-1521

“Educational Method Is Poetic”, in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1448-1457

“Aesthetic Realism and Nature”, in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1417-1423

“Ownership, Strikes, Unions”, in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1356-1366

“Poetry and Keenness”, in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1314-1323

“Animate and Inanimate Are in Music and Conscience”, in TRO no. 1291-1301

“Poetry and History”, in TRO no. 1385-1393

Selections from: Definitions, and Comment: Being a Description of the World by Eli Siegel

The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known: The international periodical of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

Current Issues of The Right Of [click here]

Aesthetic Realism and Mind

Knowing Oneself / January 26, 1977
Mind and Sherlock Holmes / October 6, 2004
Respect or Contempt for Truth? / September 22, 2004
Mind and Charles Lamb / October 20, 2004
The Divided Self / No. 1633 -February 9, 2005
Good Sense for the World / June 22, 1977
The Most Important Study for Our Time / No. 1638 —April 20, 2005
Our Inner Self and World Events / No. 1637 —April 6, 2005
The Personal and National Hope / No. 1635 —March 9, 2005
The Ethical Unconscious of Everyone / No. 1634 — February 23, 2005
Should We—Can We—Criticize Our Feelings? / No. 1632 —January 26, 2005
The Two Desires / No. 1631 — January 12, 2005
There Are Self, Reality, and Freud / No. 1630 —December 29, 2004
Everyday Life, Aesthetics, & Psychiatric Terms / No. 1629 — December 15, 2004
Mind and What Hurts It / No. 1628 —December 1, 2004
The Trouble about Communication / No. 1627 — November 17, 2004
There Are Mind, Revenge, & Good Will / No. 1621 — August 25, 2004
How Much Should We Feel? / No. 1620 — August 11, 2004
The Ethics of Mind / No. 1619 — July 28, 2004
What Interferes with Mind? / No. 1618 — July 14, 2004
Toward “Respect for What Is Real”! / No. 1615.— June 2, 2004
Are We Proud of How We’re For & Against? / No. 1613.— May 5, 2004

Eli Siegel Collection: The 25,000 volume library Eli Siegel used in developing Aesthetic Realism.

The collection includes world literature, philosophy, works on approaches to mind, poetry, history, art and literary criticism, labor and economics, the sciences. Many books contain handwritten annotations, lecture notes, and original manuscripts of Mr. Siegel’s poetry.

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